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Ricin - Vaccine for ricin toxin developed at Detrick lab

Fort Detrick Standard - Since 1989, toxin experts at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases have worked on finding a vaccine to combat ricin exposure.

Posted on 9/2/05; 2:28:31 AM

Ricin - Ricin terror gang 'planned to unleash terror on the Heathrow Express'

Daily Telegraph - A poison attack planned by al-Qa'eda-trained operatives was aimed at the busy Heathrow Express rail link and would have been "our September 11", the Metropolitan Police has revealed.

Posted on 4/17/05; 3:52:43 AM

Ricin - London Ricin Finding Called a False Positive

Washington Post - The claim that traces of the deadly poison ricin had been found in the London apartment of alleged al Qaeda operatives, first broadcast around the world in early January 2003, has been proved wrong, a senior British official said yesterday.

Posted on 4/15/05; 3:21:51 AM

Ricin - Killer jailed over poison plot

BBC - An al-Qaeda suspect who stabbed to death a policeman has been jailed for 17 years for plotting to spread ricin and other poisons on the UK's streets.

More from The Times - How high street poison plot ended in a bedsit bloodbath .

Posted on 4/14/05; 2:59:30 AM

Ricin - Florida man faces bioweapon charge

CNN - An Ocala, Florida, man was arrested by the FBI after they found the biotoxin ricin in his possession in the home he shares with his mother.

Posted on 1/14/05; 6:08:11 AM

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